Banbury Tarts.—Chop 1 cup seeded raisins, add ½ cup cleaned currants, 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons cracker dust, 1 beaten egg, juice and grated rind 1 lemon. Roll pie crust, 5 very thin, cut in circles. Lay on each a tablespoonful of filling; wet edges of paste; fold each side over the middle to form pointed ovals, dust with granulated sugar, and bake 20 minutes in slow oven.
Cocoanut Pie.—Proceed as for custard pie, (plain), adding 1½ cups grated cocoanut, and leaving out ½ pint milk.
Cranberry Pie.—Paste, 4, 3 cups cranberries, stewed with 1½ cups sugar, and strained. Line pie-plate with paste; put in cranberry jam; wash the edges, lay 3 narrow bars across; fasten at edge, then 3 more across, forming diamond-shaped spaces. Lay rim of paste, 5, or of same; wash with egg wash; bake in quick oven until paste is cooked.
Custard Pie (Plain).—Paste, 6, 1½ pints milk, 4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon extract lemon, add pinch salt. Line well-greased pie-plate ¼ inch thick, take ball of paste, flour it well, and proceed, with palm of left hand pressed against edge, to push the paste from center into a thick, high rim on edge of plate. Fill while in oven with sugar, eggs, and milk, beaten with extract and strained; bake in moderate oven 20 minutes.
Custard Pie (Apple).—Proceed as for custard pie (peach), substituting thick, stewed apples.
Custard Pie (Peach).—Proceed as for custard pie (plain), laying in bottom of pie some cooked, fresh, or canned peaches, then adding the custard.
Fruit Pies of all Kinds.—Use about 3 cups prepared fruit for each pie. Heap fruit in center. Sprinkle with sugar to sweeten; if juicy, add 1 teaspoon or more of flour with sugar. Use pie crust, 4 or 6.
Gooseberry Pie.—Paste, 5, 3 cups gooseberries, stewed with 1½ cups sugar 15 minutes, and strained. Proceed as directed for cranberry pie.
Lemon Cream Pie.—Paste, 5, 1½ pints milk, 3 tablespoons corn-starch, 1 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons butter, grated rind and juice of 2 lemons, yolks 4 eggs. Boil milk, add corn-starch dissolved in a little cold milk; when it reboils, take off, beat in yolks, butter, lemon juice, and rind; pour at once into pie-plates lined with paste, having high rim—as described in custard pie; bake in hot oven until paste is cooked—about 20 minutes.
Lemon Cream Meringue Pie.—Having made the lemon cream pie, whip whites of 4 eggs to dry froth; gently incorporate 1 cup sugar; spread over top of pie; dust with powdered sugar; return to oven to set fawn color.